are focused mostly on their economic consequences, his election is two years away so he has no reason really to distract with a war or anything like that, but the fact is he has caught himself in this pickle on one hand and on the other, he played his cards very well, which is a little embarrassing for us from a negotiating standpoint so the thing that i would tell president biden, we have to flip our position on its head where we're in the ones in a position of power and we're portraying military and financial strength and unity by the way, with our international partners, in order to get him to back down. and it is the unty question that i really think is there, unity with europeans, i mean. >> so one of the things that the defense secretary general austin said today is there is still time for diplomacy. no? he was calm and said we can still get there. is there? >> there is type for diplomacy in that diplomacy will buy us time, but that doesn't mean that things on the ground are going